Should veterans and retirees be "Triple Dipping?"

I am a Clinton's army vet. No rating, no retirement, no SSI. I don't deserve any of it. But the combat vets, the retirees and the disabled deserve way more than the triple dip check provides. I interact with vets everyday at my job and see so many cases of them getting the short end for the sacrifices they made.

sorry, some of us actually served in war time and sacrificed our bodies for uncle sam, not just our physical health but our mental health. so who ever wrote this little article must not have ever deployed. not only did we sacrifice all that, but we sacrificed relationships with our family.SO YEAH WE DESERVE IT AND THEN SOME! SO YEAH TRIPLE DIP, MORE POWER TO YA! so the next guy thats wants to complain about triple dipping, go jump in an ice cold lake and drown yourself!!!

I am Triple Dipping Also!!

The sacrifices and injuries some veterans have deserve this and more. I dont even understand why this is a subject anyways. If you meet the requirements justified by medical personnel be my guess and enjoy life to the fullest. You deserve it!!!

I'm in the process of a double dipping attempt.
I finally got rated 100% a 2 years ago (total & permanent).
I am now on the process of an appeal for SSI.
For approximately 8 years, I struggled financially due to not being able to work.
When I quit working, I was drawing $600/month.
My wife worked and I stayed home with our son.
I'm still trying to dig myself out of a financial whole.
I should have been rated total disabled when I got kicked out 25 years ago.
It was nightmare for me fighting the VA.
I fought while fucking fuckheads scammed the system for 100% and still held full time jobs.
I am not referring to everyone, so don't get your feelings hurt.
There are some that know how to work the system fraudulently.
I do take issue with full retirement and getting 100%, and then SSI on top?
But if you can sleep at night, more power to you I guess.

I think most hit it on the head... If you did your time and made it to retirement or got hurt and left early then you get the prize. Most in the military spend their best years manning the walls of democracy and doing what needs to be done for the next generation. It's a shame that when things get tight that our own citizens would want to cut or take away what was promised. I say get all you can if you earned it. If you lie and scheme to get more benefits then I hope karma finds you!

I would rather see troops that can qualify get all they can rather than those who get all their taxes paid back plus thousands more thanks to "Earned Income". Zeroing out I can see, but getting more than you paid in; no wonder there is not enough bucks to go around.

What bothers me is being a 20 year retired member with a 40% disability rating that should be more and having my disability taken from my retirement pay! No other place does this, I know the changes were made for those 50% and higher can get both. Commendable but it should apply to all no matter what the rating.

The few "triple dippers" I know are not living loves of luxury nor of comfort in the lap of luxury. Inane comments like this are from obviously uneducated (on this matter) asshats who have nothing better than to whine over "what somebody else got". Hey, bub, what they did to qualify wasn't fun or even a preferred situation, given the choice. STFU, and be thankful for their service and sacrifice.

yes the gov't is racking in millions. The vets worked hard for what they get. I'm 90% VA and 10% unemployable and don't get SSA not dead enough